Goals and areas of expertise
The Center for Interdisciplinary Disaster Research is an association of research groups in the field of disaster research at 海角直播 Kaiserslautern-Landau. The aim is to utilize the potential of interdisciplinary research between technology, economics and education. Our specific expertise covers the following areas:
Education in civil protection
disaster management
Resilience in flood risk management
Latest news
Concept paper "Psychosocial situation and the population's ability to help themselves"
Information on the perception of risks and their individual and social consequences is the basis for assessing the population's ability to help themselves and society's resilience. In addition to the assessment of risk and hazard situations, it is essential for effective decision-making and effective crisis management. They enable the derivation of political and strategic measures for risk reduction and prevention, allow risks to be recognized earlier and thus offer the opportunity to react to them in a targeted and timely manner. Overall, they help to ensure the psycho-social stability of the population before and in times of crisis, identify vulnerable groups, promote individual and collective protective behavior and strengthen social resources such as the willingness to help. Against this background, (TU Braunschweig), (Medical School Hamburg) and (海角直播 Kaiserslautern-Landau) have developed a concept paper for the establishment of "Situation monitoring on the psychosocial situation and self-help capacity of the population in Germany". The aim of the paper is to make a contribution to the continuation of previous work and to encourage discussion of possible implementation options.
You can the concept paper here
Cooperations
Science
- Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands)
- Free University of Berlin
- Geo Research Center Potsdam
- Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, (United States)
- Leuphana University of L眉neburg
- Medical School Hamburg
- Free University of Berlin
- Berlin University of Technology
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
- Mines Tech, Paris (France)
- RWTH Aachen University
- Berlin University of Technology
- Braunschweig University of Technology
- Dortmund University of Technology
- Dresden University of Technology
- Munich University of Technology
- Ume氓 University (Sweden)
- Environmental Research Center Leipzig
- University of Hamburg
- Universitae Politehnica Timisoara (Romania)
- Universidad Nacional de Educaci贸n a Distancia (Spain)
- Universit茅 de Lorraine (France)
- University College London (Great Britain)
- University of Namibia (Namibia)
- University of Queensland (Australia)
- University of Tokyo (Japan)
- Warwick Business School (Great Britain)
- et al.
Practice
- Professional fire departments Kaiserslautern, Magdeburg, Neuwied and others
- Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance
- Deutsche Bahn InfraGO
- German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste (DWA)
- Emschergenossenschaft/Lippeverband
- D眉sseldorf Fire Brigade
- Hamburg Fire Brigade
- Flood Competence Center Cologne
- Saxony-Anhalt State Office for Flood Protection and Water Management (LHW)
- Technical Relief Organization, SEEBA, local associations Sinzig, Euskirchen, Achim and others
- West Palatinate Clinic Kaiserslautern
- and others



